Rake.



No. 812,457. PATENTBD FEB. 13, 1906.

F. A. RUGG.

RAKE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.20,1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RAKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application filed November 20 1905. Serial No. 288,169.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS A. Rose, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Greenfield, in the county of Franklin andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Rakes, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention relates to improvements in rakes, and pertains moreparticularly to a construction of the reinforcing bows connected to andbetween the rake-handle and rake-head.

The object is to provide in a rake bows for bracing and strengtheningthe head in its connection with the stale or handle, which is ofgreatly-increased strength and durability, and which conduces to economyin manufacture, in that the large percentage of breakage, as has beenheretofore occasioned in the employment of wood bows, is obviated.

The invention consists in a rake having bows intermediately engaged withthe rakehandle and by their extremities connected with the rake-head andmade of metal tubing, which while of comparatively light gage isextremely strong and contributes materially to the durability andgeneral excellence of the implement.

The improved rake is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective View. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in section,across the rake-head, as taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents the rakehead having the rake-teeth a, asusual. B is the handle, and C C the bows. The bows are constituted bycurved tubes of metalsteel or iron being most practicable-and the bowsmay be made of tubing having an open seam b, or the seam may be closedor the tubing made seamless. In cases where open-seam tubing is used thebows are combined with the handle and head of the rake in such a mannerthat the seam b is located at the inner or concave side of thesemicircular bow. Suitable fastenings, as nails or pins d, are providedin connection between the extremities of the bows entered into socketstherefor in the rake-head, such fastenings penetrating the head andpassing through small holes previously drilled therefor in the bows.

The bows, made of metallic tubing, asdescribed and shown, while notappreciably heavier than wood bows, as formerly employed, manifestly addgreatly to the value and excellence of the rake, as the rake therebypossesses greater strength and durability, and the bows are of theutmost uniformity as to their curvature in all the rakes made of a givenpattern.

Hay-rakes or hand-rakes may of course be made to comprise any desirednumber of the bows, and in some cases the rakes are made in accordancewith this invention, embodying three of the tubular metallic bows.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a rake having bows intermediatelyengaged with the rake-handle, and by their extremities connected withthe rake-head, and made of comparatively light gage metal tubing for theproduction of an extremely strong and more durable implement.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a rake having bows intermediatelyengaged with the rake-handle, and by their extremities connected withthe rake-head, and composed of unseamed metal tubing, arranged withtheir seam-lines at the inner or concave side of the bows.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS A. RUGG.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, G. R. DRISCOLL.

